Gretchen Rubin on Expectations, Pillars of Habits, and Understanding Why You React the Way You Do

The Anxious Achiever

Morra Aarons-Mele

Business, Careers, Management, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Before many others, podcast host and author Gretchen Rubin found a way to create her own brand, run a remote company, and think carefully about mental health and work. She shares a helpful framework for understanding how expectations shape your actions and reactions, whether you suffer from a diagnosable mental health condition or not. Host Morra Aarons-Mele speaks to Rubin about her writing, her career, and more.

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0:00.0	LinkedIn Presents
0:02.0	I'm Maura Erin Smealy and this is the Anxious Achiever, the show that looks at the intersection of mental health and work and how we can all do both better.
0:30.6	Our mental health struggles and strengths, they all lie on a spectrum. Many of the people we speak to on the show have serious diagnosable conditions,
0:35.6	and many others don't.
0:37.9	But they're still moving the conversation forward, whether by giving us new frameworks for
0:42.1	ideas, new psychological ways to think about the world, talking about how they run their
0:48.7	own organizations differently, or just being open and honest about their experiences in life and work.
0:55.5	Today's guest is someone I've admired for a long time, and she's built a brand around happiness.
1:01.4	Happiness is not my strong suit, but Gretchen approaches happiness in a really authentic way.
1:08.4	It's not the fake, sunshiny, everything is always great kind.
1:12.7	It's the kind of happiness that is more like contentment.
1:15.5	The feeling that you're living a fulfilling life,
1:18.0	and that you're evolving,
1:19.1	you're working on checking in with yourself
1:20.9	and people around you.
1:22.9	She's endlessly curious about what makes humans tick.
1:26.0	Gretchen Rubin runs a media company.
1:28.2	She's an author of many books, including The Four Tendencies, Better Than Before, and the Happiness
1:33.3	Project.
1:34.4	And she hosts the podcast Happier with Gretchen Rubin.
1:40.9	Gretchen, hi.
1:43.7	Hello. I'm so happy to be talking to you.
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